Wild Birds You May See in Your Garden
The wild birds you are most likely to see in your garden are blackbirds, sparrows, starlings, blue tits, great tits, robins, doves and greenfinches. You can provide appropriate food to attract the birds you would like to see. Finches for example love the tiny thistle seeds so you could hang a thistle feeder in your garden if you would like to attract finches.
Chaffinches and thrushes are more likely to feed from the ground beneath a bird table and if you live close to woods you may see nuthatches, woodpeckers, marsh tits or coal tits. In the winter blackcaps are becoming increasingly common at birdtables. To attract thrush species such as redwings, song thrushes, fieldfares and mistle thrushes supply fruit or berries on your bird table. Other species you may see are siskins and bramblings, especially in the winter.
You are unlikely to attract insect eating birds such as wrens or treecreepers to your bird table Allowing an area of your garden to grow wild will attract insects which may then attract the insect eating birds. You could also plant some teasels and allow thistles to grow to attract the finches.
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